Types of business intelligence tools
I hope this will help the BI practiser to evaluate the tools used at different process and the available tools.
Types of business intelligence tools
The general categories of business intelligence tools are:
1.Spreadsheets[1]
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Microsoft Excel
- Apple Numbers
- OpenOffice.org
- more
2.Reporting and querying software - are tools that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data (
Open source software
- Eclipse BIRT
- Agata
- ReportProject
- JasperReports
- Pentaho
- GNU_Enterprise (reporting sub-package) Etc…
Commercial software
- Infocaptor
- Alchemex
- Actuate
- Cognos BI
- Crystal Reports
- InetSoft(InetSoft Style Report)
- Information Builders
- FOCUS and WebFOCUS
- LogiXML
- Microstrategy
- Oracle XML Publisher (now known as ‘BI Publisher’ )
- Business Objects
- Telerik Reporting
- SQL Server Reporting Services
- Proclarity
- RepGen.Net Etc…
3. OLAP
There are many vendors providing OLAP tools
- Microsoft Corporation
- Hyperion Solutions Corporation
- Cognos
- Business Objects
- MicroStrategy
- SAP AG
- Cartesis SA
- Applix
- Infor
- Oracle Corporation Etc…
4.Digital Dashboards
here I can recommend one very easy and powerful Dashboard tool called Infocaptor .I keep recomending this because its having all of the same power features of reporting and Dashboards tool as any other top (read expensive) tools .
5.Data mining
- DataCruncher (from DataMind)
- PRW
- OLPARS
- Intelligent Miner ( from IBM )
- Scenario(from Cognos )
Etc…
6.Process mining
A software framework for the evaluation of process mining algorithms has been developed at the Technical University of Eindhoven and is available as an open source toolkit.
- Process Mining
- Prom Framework
- Prom Import Framework
Etc…
7 .Business performance management
what is BPM ?
Business performance management (BPM) (or Corporate performance management, Enterprise performance management, Operational performance management) is a set of processes that help organizations optimize their business performance. It is a framework for organizing, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems that drive business performance.
BPM is seen as the next generation of business intelligence (BI). BPM helps businesses make efficient use of their financial, human, material and other resources
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